AOC chief wants 'no doping' pledge

John Coates hopes to have his proposal in place in time for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

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Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates wants all Olympians to sign a statutory declaration saying they have no doping history if they wish to compete at the Rio Games in 2016.

Coates will put his proposal to the AOC Executive Board at a meeting in Melbourne later this month.

He hopes to have this measure in place for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia and the Rio Games two years later.

"If they don't sign, they don't go to the Games, they won't be selected," Coates said.

"What I don't want is for the AOC to have egg on its face like cycling has."

A similar measure was put in place by British cycling Team Sky, after the Lance Armstrong saga which has seen Australians Matt White and Stephen Hodge both admit taking performance enhancing drugs during their cycling careers.

"In my opinion we simply cannot allow the name of the AOC to be damaged, like that of the International Cycling Union, for not having taken every reasonable step possible to ensure that no person in authority on our Olympic Team has a doping history," Coates said.

Coates recently renewed his call for the Federal Government to strengthen the powers of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority to investigate doping by "compelling witnesses to attend and give evidence and to produce documents relevant to such investigations".